Greenback dips versus yen In Asia as NKorea tensions revive

05:51 26.09.2017

On Tuesday, the evergreen buck sank versus the Japanese yen because key bank minutes from Japan demonstrated no surprises, although market participants were still cautious as for tensions on the Korean peninsula, including a recent bunch of threats from Donald Trump.

On Tuesday, the Bank of Japan also issued its monetary policy gathering minutes, which revealed that policymakers are geared up towards sticking with their current policy framework. The minutes also hinted there was solid reason to be optimistic as for consumer prices due to the fact measures of inflation expectations had stopped going down.

Gauging the greenback’s value versus a trade-weighted basket of six key currencies, the US dollar index went down 0.08% trading at 92.37.